Poll for Christians: Are the End Times imminent?

[xpastor]

Your funny, you know nothing about scriptures,

Says the asshole who believes in talking snakes and world-covering floods.
You are an amazing source of amusement, G-C. A stellar example of allowing your brain to atrophy.

Since you mention that smooth-talking serpent, it reminds me I have a half-formed theory that some of the OT writers were much more sophisticated than their present day fundie fans.

Specifically, I doubt that the authors of Job and Jonah thought the truth value of their fables was as historical fact, not anymore than Aesop did. The stories are so well-formed that they give the impression of a professional story teller rather than someone trying to recite a bit of tribal history handed down through the ages.

The snippet about the talking donkey and the appearance of the talking snake are too brief to judge, but they could also be intentional fables.

However, I don't see anyway of saving the fantasies about the sun standing still in the sky or iron axe heads floating in water. They're unbelievable on any level.